i have emailed c-span to have somebody from a group called health science institute in baltimore. i'm wandering if your guest knows anything about it. it's a global group of medical doctors and medical scientists that focus on prevention and natural coors. and they have investigated for a number of years the 10 areas of the world where people do not get sick. they don't have diabetes or cancer, et cetera. they live to be 100 and die naturally. if anybody goes to health science institute of baltimore. they will find that they can get free information. we'll leave it there. >> i haven't heard of health sciences institute but what you say is true. if we changed our lifestyle, we could livelonger, healthier lives. the ways to do it are simple. cut out smoking don't drink excessively and eat a healthier diet and exercise on our line for independents. >> i'm calling because i'm a single mom that's raised four kids. i currently have a 5-year-old that's gone thrute fda pyramid plan because she was on a wheat program. the foods that they suggested that should be eaten by her was a joke. th

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email question at booktv@c-span.org. david is joining us from ocean side, california. go ahead, please >> caller: good morning here in ocean side. god bless c-spand thank you, mr. dean. i've enjoyed several of your appearances. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: on c-span. i was going to ask about nixon's support from goldwater in the white house and withdrawal of that support. you use the term "watergate revisionism." i'd love to hear your top three watergate revisionist strings at some point. but i want to change directions slightly. since you're talking about mark felt, obviously, the idea that mark felt -- that deep throat was this wonderful, you know, voice for sanity pushing upward. it seems more like he was your authoritarian personality which seems to be endemic in the fbi. >> guest: well, i think you're right on felt. who could well fall into the authoritarian personality right. very self-righteous in doing what he's doing. doing it for his

you can also join the conversation online at c-span's twitter page and also send us an email to journal@c-span.org. here's how the story is playing out in the "financial times" as he apologizes for losses, and inside is this story, saying that for nearly three hours mr. rubin, the former treasury secretary and director of citigroup, and chuck whins, who you heard just a moment ago, the former chief executive, did manage to work they are way through questions from this commission. indeed, even though technicians had to be called in to fix the hearing room's air conditioning system halfway through the session, mr. rube and inmr. prince did not break a sweated in answering the commission's questions until, that is, just before the end of the hearing when the commission's chairman -- by the way, the former california state treasurer, and bill thomas, the republican co-chair, former chairman of the house ways and means committees, showed that they had some sting left in their tail. in response to protests by mr. prince and mr. rubin that they could not have monitored the company's catastroph

. >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online, and you can also connect with us on twitter and facebook and youtube, and sign up for hour alert emailspan.org. -- for our alert emails. >> arianna huffington and christina romer. among the topics, what the u.s. can learn from japan and china and the outlook for the economy. this lasts about two hours. >> everyone knows some of these people. more of a cyber destination many as an individual. he travels with and around the world ticket. >> sort of a latter-day version of the flying dutchman. >> that is right. 20 years ago, there was the phrase coined, "culture is destiny. it we used to explain -- it was used to explain how an economy grew. it was extraordinary in the world of international development. shouted out to if you know. yes? the reason why? it allows people to do office work, white collar work. our panel today is taking a similar approach. place, ergo, progress. let me just started off with the panel. what do you think? >> anybody who has spent time in silicon valley knows that it feels different. venture-capital that you can get access to very quickly. people who learn from on

institute] >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on twation, radio and online and connect with us on twitter, facebook and youtube and sign up for our scheduled alert emails at c-span.org. >> president obama went to iowa today and visited three counties in southeast iowa where the unemployment rate is at or near 10% and held this town hall event. [cheers and applause] >> hello everybody. good to see you. [cheers and applause] >> good to see you. thank you so much everybody. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. everybody have a seat. it is good to be back in ottumwa! [cheers and applause] >> i missed you guys. >> there are a couple of special folks that i make sure that i acknowledge. used to be your governor, now your secretary, tom vilsack is in the house. [cheers and applause] >> your attorney general, tom miller is in the house. [applause] >> the mayor of ottumwa. [applause] >> and college president, our host. [cheers and applause] >> jim was bragging about the ball team here. [laughter] >> all right. we can go out there and shoot a little bit. he seems very confident. well, it is wonderful to see all of you and thanks for the wonderful welco

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emails and phone calls. "washington journal" live sunday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-spanounced his expectations for growth in the economy and for unemployment to improve significantly in the near term. this portion is just over two hours. >> the committee will come to order. and in order to have time for questions, i'm limiting opening statements to the ranking member, senator brownback for five minutes, and the vice chair and mr. brady for three minutes. and i would also like to ask for unanimous consent to accept written statements of members into the record. america is on a path toward economic recovery. a large part of the credit for this turnaround is due not only to president barack obama, but also to ben bernanke, the chairman of the federal reserve, a respected scholar on the great depression. under his guidance the fed took creative and effective actions to inject liquidity into our financial system, which saved owe nation from economic catastrophe. i am confident that you will continue to steer monetary policy at the fed carefully through the next set of obstacl

c-span. our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online, and you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube, and you can sign up to get emails on c- span.org. >> senate democrats failed to get 60 votes to move their financial regulation bill. then, a conversation on the new arizona immigration legislation. we will hear from prime minister gordon brown later. british elections are next week. and here is something about the financial conversation before the vote took place. >> the senator from new hampshire. >> i want to rise to speak on this bill also. this is such a complex piece of legislation, it is difficult to debate in a sense that is understandable, because there is so much technical, so much of a technical aspect to this bill, but let's start with the purpose or what i believe our purpose should be. our purpose would be, one, to do as much as we can to build a regulatory regime which will reduce the potential for another event, the type of which we had in the end of 2008 where we had a massive breakdown in the system, financial system of this country, and as a result of huge systemic risks being built into the system

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c-span 3. sunday on book tv's in depth television analyst, author and columnist and three-time presidential candidate pat buchanan on conservative ideology and the political climate. he will take your calls and emailstweets. >> next, political analyst charlie cook talks about this year's elections. he spoke at a conference of community bankers. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> charlie, i already did your introduction. it was great, by the way. >> thank you. my mother will appreciate it. actually, you thought they were teasing about the latest information. this is -- hang on a second. somebody literally did just come through although you have just been listening to senator shelby. hang on a second, here. why are we not working here? ok. yo h for having me. you know t ay iz t when i started my business, my cook political report, 26 years ago, it was with my $6,000 out of the senate retirement fund and a $10,000 loan from a small community bank in mississippi that my father-in-law -- [applause] >> my father-in-law cosigned it. i'm not sure -- who's here from mississippi? anybody? no, no. i'm not sure the bank of holidale, mississippi exists. they got paid off, i'll assure you that. that would b